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"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."
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"But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach."
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"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."
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"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues."
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"If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team."
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"I don't want to be a Major League coach."
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"But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see."
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"I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it."
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"How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win."
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"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."
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"Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner."
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"I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning."
Winning
"25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that."
Goal
"I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey."
Career
"I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year."
Time
"I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams."
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"I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles."
Mind
"Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it."
People
"We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time."
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"I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup."
Work
"I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually."
Time
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